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"Now, those cabinets also include naloxone [an opiate overdose medication], an antidote for people who are overdosing on opioids like heroin. Given as an injection or a nasal spray, naloxone can quickly revive someone who is not breathing. The city keeps it in every nurse’s office, including in its elementary schools."

But the numbers of young people dying from overdoses around the country is striking. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2015, opioids killed 7,163 people between the ages of 15 and 29, more than 20 percent of total deaths. And as communities across the country face this swell of death from heroin and pills, schools see the epidemic lapping at their doorsteps — killing friends, neighbors, recent graduates. Educators are increasingly deciding that they should have naloxone on hand.

From the Article: In School Nurse’s Room: Tylenol, Bandages and an Antidote to HeroinPublished by: New York TimesOriginal Link :https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/nyregion/in-naloxone-heroin-schools-room-overdose-antidote.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-shareArtwork Fair Use:By SVG derived by me from File:US timeline. Heroin deaths.jpg, which was derived from National Institute on Drug Abuse. And User:Timeshifter. User: Timeshifter cropped the original chart, and added "USA" to it. User:Timeshifter put the adapted chart under the same public domain license. See Commons:Convert tables and charts to wiki code or image files, and the section about adding text to chart images. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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